Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 192 The prototype of a professional soldier! (seeking subscription)

Fusu was not touched by this.

He has always known little about the situation in the army.

But according to his understanding, the imperial court did not issue any orders to the army to "xiwen". Why would Ji Heng say that this is the power of the system?

Fusu asked, "Mr. Ji, are there so many people in the army who can read?"

Ji Heng nodded, and said: "The system of the Great Qin Dynasty is different from that of other princes in the past. In the past, many courtiers in the court were mostly from military backgrounds, and they were basically knowledgeable in both military and government affairs. Many people thought this was a rare example, but it was not. Not so."

"Under the military merit system, after being rewarded with a title, the status will be greatly improved, but if you want to become a general of two or five hundred and above, most of them need to be literate. Many of them are actually self-taught, and of course they are indispensable. Go to the school to study, no matter what, the literacy rate of the soldiers of the Great Qin Dynasty is very high."

"This also led to a strong atmosphere for learning characters in the military."

"The generals of the Great Qin Dynasty are different from those of other countries. The generals basically rose from the humble beginnings. These people used to be of low status and had no chance to learn characters, but the knowledge that the army needs to master is very huge."

"Like what's like 'Chengguo Guanfu', 'Gateway (key)', 'Qianmo Jinqiao', 'Rhinoceros Horn and Elephant Teeth', 'Leather Beetle', 'Warehouse Corn', 'Bingjiagong', 'Money Feather' and so on, these All the generals of Daqin need to master."

"If you can't master it, you can't be promoted."

"So whether they want to or not, the soldiers of Great Qin must be literate."

"Maybe I can't write it, but I can definitely recognize it."

Ji Heng didn't lie.

The literacy rate of the Qin army is far higher than that of the other six countries.

In Heifu's family book unearthed in later generations, Heifu is just an ordinary soldier, but he can write proficiently.

So evident.

With a thought in his heart, Fu Su's eyes lit up and he said, "According to Mr., many people in the Great Qin Army are actually able to read and write? It is indeed only in this way. The soldiers who were knighted in the Great Qin in the past can directly serve as officials."

Fusu asked and answered by himself.

He already agreed with Ji Heng's statement.

Ji Heng said indifferently: "The officials from the Great Qin Dynasty are all integrated with the military and the government. Even the school that mainly trains officials in the Great Qin Dynasty also learns military affairs while learning the way of being an official. Therefore, it may not be impossible in the army to do the opposite. , Master literacy."

"But after all, wars were too frequent in the past, and only a small number of soldiers in the army knew how to write."

"But it's different now."

"I said a word once in prison."

"What?" Hu Hai was finally able to speak at this moment.

He heard that Ji Heng and Fusu had a heated chat earlier, but he couldn't say anything, and he was quite depressed in his heart, but when it came to prison, he knew far more than Fusu.

Hu Hai moved his body forward.

"A hundred generations have practiced Qin politics." Ji Heng has always been straightforward, and said this sentence directly.

"Every generation will practice Qin politics?" Hu Hai frowned, and he asked in doubt: "I remember you said that the centralized system created by the emperor was destined to be emulated by the world, but what does this have to do with the literacy situation in the army? "

Fusu also looked over curiously.

Ji Heng smiled and said with a flick of his sleeves: "The Qin system is not just about centralization of power. The first emperor created a huge system, and centralization of power is the most eye-catching thing. In this system, there are actually other things that are remarkable. .”

"For example, border guards!"

"Border guard." Fu Su and Hu Hai looked at each other, their eyes were full of bewilderment.

They don't know much about it.

Have no chance to find out.

The only thing they knew was that they withdrew from the border guards at that time, firstly to prevent the Xiongnu from continuing to go south, secondly to garrison troops to deter northern Xinjiang and South China Sea, and thirdly to try to move soldiers out of Guanzhong.

As for the rest, they hardly know.

The two looked up at Ji Heng.

Ji Heng's eyes were deep, and he said with emotion: "The current system of Daqin is actually very rough, and it can even be called sloppy. It only established a large framework, and it is not really perfect inside, but even so, Daqin is still Given this broad framework, some far-reaching systems have been set up.”

"The most important of these is the border defense system."

"I don't know why Daqin introduced the border protection system. Maybe it was just to relieve the urgency of the moment, or there were other reasons, but this system is indeed very foresighted and unique."

"It's just that the establishment of Daqin was too short."

"It's so short that it's not clear what impact he will have on the system he created."

"And that doesn't matter."

"You only need to remember one thing."

"These systems established by Daqin, whether they were launched in a hurry or after careful consideration, basically serve Daqin's centralized system."

"That's enough."

Fusu's eyes were still full of confusion.

He didn't understand the meaning of Ji Heng's words.

Ji Hengdao: "Under the centralization system, the rest of the system revolves around the centralization, and they are all designed to solve the problems under the centralization. Whether it is the border guard system or the unified government, they are all for solving some problems under the centralization. .”

"Therefore, many problems in Daqin can be solved under these supporting systems."

"It's just that Daqin ignored it."

"Or didn't realize it at all."

"These systems are too new, and there is no reference. The use of these systems by the Great Qin Dynasty is completely limited to these systems themselves, and they have not maximized them, and they have never thought of using these systems to feed back the centralization itself. .”

"Blindly investing, but not getting rewards, this is bound to make the court even more exhausted."

"It will even make it even more unbearable for the court."

"And this has deviated from the original intention of these systems. These systems are here to solve problems, not to continue to add problems to the court."

"This is also the problem with Daqin's decrees over the years."

"Destroying the old and creating the new."

"Daqin has indeed achieved 'shabby'."

"But what about 'Lixin'?"

"Daqin didn't do it. Daqin just built an empty shelf. It was empty and there was nothing. Right now, Daqin is relying on the endless labor of exploiting and squeezing the bottom to support this empty shelf, but it is destined to not last long. Therefore, Daqin needs some Pillars that can support a shelf."

"Da Qin forged a few pillars himself."

"It's just placed horizontally!"

Ji Heng looked at the sky with a gloomy gaze.

Fu Su and Hu Hai looked at each other, and they both saw bitterness on each other's faces. What Ji Heng said was too profound, and they really couldn't comprehend or understand it.

Even more unimaginable.

But they also understood.

Many decrees issued by Daqin are actually very insightful.
Just didn't really take advantage of it.

Fu Su patted his clothes to make himself look relatively tidy, bowed solemnly to Ji Heng, and said, "Please give me your advice, sir."

Ji Heng didn't rush to speak.

He recalled the border system in his mind.

But my heart is full of emotions.

The system established by the Qin Dynasty has been used throughout the dynasties, even after more than 2000 years, it is still in use, but the name has been changed from the ancient Border Guard to the Construction Corps, but the actual content is quite different.

Ji Heng said slowly: "Under the border guard system, the soldiers of the Great Qin were roughly divided into three categories, namely knights, flint soldiers and field soldiers."

"The work of the Suizu is the most arduous. They have to watch the beacon and monitor the enemy's situation at all times."

"The Shuzu in the Qin population mostly refers to the Suizu."

"The second is Tianzu, which is equivalent to the Tuntian Army. It is also the Qin court that has been encouraging soldiers to drag their families to move."

"These people are in the South China Sea in northern Xinjiang. They are usually engaged in building farmhouses, digging canals and wells, and repairing fortifications. When it comes to wartime, they directly participate in combat."

"Knights have the highest status."

"These knights are all elites selected from the regular strokes."

"The pawns refer to those who are strong, fast, and have extraordinary talents."

"These people can even bring their own private slaves."

"In addition to these three types of arms, there are also various orderly soldiers. Engineer soldiers and canal soldiers are responsible for building water conservancy projects, river and canal soldiers are responsible for building water conservancy projects, grain guard soldiers are responsible for guarding granaries, city guard soldiers are responsible for guarding the city walls, and road soldiers are responsible for sanitation and maintenance. The pawn is in charge of cooking and so on."

"Under the border guard system, the soldiers have been continuously subdivided."

"It's actually"

Ji Heng paused for a moment, but he didn't say the phrase 'professional soldiers' in the end. Although Daqin's system is indeed very suitable for training professional soldiers, the money and food consumed by cultivating professional soldiers are far from what Daqin can provide now, so he thinks about it , not prepared to speak out.

He changed the subject and continued: "Soldiers in the northern border and the South China Sea are usually very boring, so they also give birth to a lot of entertainment and leisure."

"For example, throwing pots, autumn shooting, etc."

"These are actually very commonplace. The soldiers under the border defense system are different from other times. The main reason is that the requirements for the soldiers are very high, and the soldiers must have basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills."

"Of course this was not intentionally cultivated by the imperial court, but a specific product of the garrison system."

"In the army, soldiers need to keep in mind the military orders and the rules for using the Great Wall beacons. In addition to proficiently operating these transmission systems, the guards must also recite the formulas of Jiujiu and Tiangandizhi to exercise basic arithmetic ability, memory and reaction power."

Ji Heng talked eloquently.

Speaking of these, his eyes are full of regret.

When he was Huang Fusong at the end of the Han Dynasty, he regularly inspected the soldiers. If those small leaders in the army did not memorize the "Fenghuo Pinyue" by heart, or simply couldn't remember it, they would be punished or even dismissed on the spot. It is all for the soldiers to take the initiative to read and read, so as to better complete their jobs.

The Qin Dynasty was even worse.

In the Han Dynasty, there were many distinctions between soldiers and soldiers.

There was no such thing in the Qin Dynasty. A garrison soldier may be a pawn today and a pawn tomorrow, so they will gradually become omnipotent in the end. Under the high pressure of this militarism, the military quality of Qin soldiers can be described as Being infinitely elevated.

And that's just to get the job done.

According to the law of the Qin Dynasty, the average adult man will serve for two years in his lifetime. In the first year, he will serve as a soldier in the county, and in the second year, he will serve as a soldier in a border county, or go to the capital to serve as a guard for palaces, imperial halls, and ancestral temples.

It's just that this Qin law obviously only exists on bamboo slips.

Not really implemented.

Most of the soldiers in the southern and northern borders of the Qin Dynasty have served for three or four years, and the elders have served for seven or eight years. Because of this, soldiers were gradually required to master reading, writing and arithmetic that were originally only required for officers.

Eight years in Nanhai, three years in Beiyuan.

Daqin has already cultivated a group of very considerable literacy talents.

As long as they are given opportunities to learn laws and scriptures and improve their cultural accomplishment, they are fully capable of serving as local officials.

However, Da Qin never considered it from the beginning to the end.

To be precise, the imperial court didn't even know there was such a group of people.

Guard system is too new.

The founder of the new Qin Qin didn't even know this.

If the garrison system can be truly utilized, the problem of the shortage of Daqin officials will be resolved to a certain extent, and this is also the reason why he urged these soldiers to leave Guanzhong.

They stayed in the army and in Guanzhong, and they didn't realize this at all.

The Qin people are too curly!
They deserve better.

Even in the future, it will be possible to use this to allow the people of Kanto to participate in border defense, and then gradually dismantle the influence of the nobles of the six countries on Kanto, allowing more people at the bottom of the world to participate in the construction of the Qin Empire.

It's just too early to tell.

Long silence.

Fusu has understood.

What Ji Heng meant was that under the garrison system of the Great Qin Dynasty, the soldiers of the Great Qin Dynasty were different from the past. Most of these soldiers had mastered a certain amount of reading, writing and arithmetic, and had begun to form the foundation to become officials.

Daqin lacked low-level officials.

This problem has existed for a long time.

Has not been resolved.

It is precisely because of this that officials in the Guandong dare to be half-hearted.

If Daqin arranges these, not to mention hundreds of thousands, at least tens of thousands of soldiers to Guandong as officials, wouldn't the imperial court's control over the world be greatly strengthened?

Fusu looked happy.

He suppressed the joy in his heart and asked: "Do the soldiers under the guard system really have such abilities?"

"I don't know." Ji Heng answered very simply.

Fu Su was taken aback.

Ji Heng glanced at Fusu indifferently, and said in a deep voice: "I have never been to the northern border and the South China Sea, but I just have some understanding of the situation in the army. For the specifics, someone needs to go and see."

"That's just my inference."

"As for the truth, how can I know?"

Fusu smiled awkwardly.

Although Ji Heng's preface was inconsistent, but what he said was indeed correct.

Ji Heng only made inferences about the current situation of the garrison system. He really wasn't sure what it was like. After all, he had never been to the frontier, let alone understood the situation on the ground, so how could he dare to boast?
Fusu said embarrassingly: "Fusu is impatient."

Fusu was used to this for a long time, and said without blushing, without heartbeat: "If Mr.'s deduction is true, the garrison system can really solve the urgent need of the Great Qin. It is precisely because of the lack of officials in the Guandong that they continue to appoint officials from the original six countries. Most people have both ends, and many of them have private connections with the nobles of the six countries."

"If you follow Mr.'s law."

"Appointing these garrison soldiers as officials can not only give the soldiers a proper explanation, but also solve the problem of rewards that the court has always been hanging on their hearts. It should be a multi-purpose effort."

"Mister is a great talent."

Fusu is too lazy to use his brain now.

He already had self-knowledge, but his own brain couldn't match it. Ji Heng feared that he had already understood these calculations in his heart, and had already planned everything. How could he hear the problem after just listening for a while?
He doesn't have that ability.

He silently wrote down Ji Heng's idea.

If he was going to go back, he would write these up and let his father make up his mind. He believed that with his father's courage, he would definitely agree.

If it is really implemented, many difficult problems that plagued the court in the past will be solved in one go.

He was very happy.

Hu Hai drooped his body, already a little listless.

He didn't get it at all.

But he didn't bother to ask any more.

He didn't know anything about garrison and villages, even if Ji Heng explained it in detail, he probably wouldn't understand it, so he didn't ask for torture.

Ji Heng looked indifferent.

He pondered for a while, and continued: "The solutions I proposed above mostly revolve around the soldiers whose titles are not changed. As for the lowest ranks, the number is the largest, and may even be as high as tens of thousands. [-], so if the court really thinks about it."

"A lot of money and food must be prepared."

"If the situation in the farmhouse is good, if the soldiers who don't change their hairpins are willing to send their children to school, or they are willing to go to the Kanto to serve as officials, the court can use this to collect a lot, or distribute less, but these numbers are relatively small. Compared with the hundreds of thousands of officials who have not followed up, it is still relatively small."

"It's true that Cishi can make these people feel better, but in the end it still comes down to actual benefits."

"So if the reaction in the army is not strong, the conditions for conferring clan can be relatively raised a little bit higher, and clans above Zanyou can be conferred for free, and there is a chance to be conferred with the title of the previous master, but the requirement is the same as that of Zanyou's children, no extra Distribute farms and houses, and how many years must they have served in the South China Sea or Northern Xinjiang."

"As for the lowest-level officials, they have nothing to do with it."

"Based on this calculation, the number of fields and houses that Daqin will eventually need to give will be greatly reduced. If the number is not high, then it may only be solved with money and food."

"The money and food that Daqin has hoarded this year may not be enough."

Fusu's eyes dimmed.

Ji Heng's idea has been very dedicated.

Through various false rewards and real rewards, arouse the soldiers' desire to compare, and then let the soldiers voluntarily give up the rewards, reducing the pressure on the court, but this can only solve the situation of the soldiers of the highest rank and above. As for the most common, it is also the highest number Mr. Gong, this is still difficult to settle.

There are simply too many.

Hundreds of thousands.

According to the laws of Qin, that means hundreds of thousands of hectares of land and hundreds of thousands of 'houses'.

Daqin might not be able to get it right now.

Unless the other Gao Jue in Guanzhong offered to donate the land, but this is obviously impossible, and he can only find out helplessly in the end, fearing that in the end, it really can only be solved by money and food.

Fu Su made a bow and said: "What you said is very true. It's just that the merchants have gone through all this tossing. Even if the family has a surplus, there may not be much left. If the merchants are forced again, I am afraid that the harvest will be very little."

"unless."

"The imperial court plundered the merchants in the Kanto region."

Ji Heng looked at Fusu with a strange expression, but he didn't expect that Fusu could have such an idea. He knew that Fusu was just forced to rush, and because of his dependence on the route, he subconsciously wanted to move merchants.

After all, the imperial court has indeed benefited a lot from merchants.

Ji Heng shook his head and said, "Kandong is different from Guanzhong. The imperial court's control over Kanto is not so strong, and the officials in Guandong and the imperial court may not be on the same page. If we seize the opportunity for the nobles of the six countries, it will cause chaos in Kanto."

"Isn't this worth the candle?"

"Therefore, merchants cannot move for a short time."

"Merchants have no money."

"But one group has money."

"Who?" Fu Su suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of hope.

"Rich people." Ji Heng said.

"Rich man?" Fu Su frowned.

Ji Heng said indifferently: "The current low-level people have been squeezed out long ago. Even if the imperial court wants to search from the low-level people, they can't think of making much money, but the nobles, powerful, and officials may not. , so if you want to make money, you have to start with these people."

"How to do this?" Fusu asked curiously.

Ji Heng said with a half-smile, "Salt is still used to make a fuss. The aristocrats are powerful and rich. They also have requirements for the quality of life, and even compare each other in private. In this case, if you want to earn their money , couldn’t be easier to further refine the refined salt and make it into a luxury product.”

"Don't take the amount."

"Only make super profits from the rich."

"They come from wealthy families, how can they eat bitter refined salt? They should eat more pure luxury salt. What these people eat is not salt, but quality of life."

"Sell at a high price!"

"If you have the conditions, you can put some kelp powder in it, and directly say that it can cure the big neck disease, and claim it as imperial salt, and there will be many powerful nobles flocking to it."

"But Daqin has to find a way to further purify the salt."

"And it can only be sold officially."

Fusu's eyes lit up.

This is indeed a way.

And the imperial court did have a way to sell them.

After all, Ji Heng suggested that the government should also participate in the sale of salt before, but it was only coarse salt from Gasha mud. Now it may not be impossible to pack it and sell imperial salt.

This is a good way to make money.

Fu Su smiled and said: "This method is good. The quality of imperial salt in the palace is indeed much better than that of the outside world. It is easy to sell it at a high price. It is just that kelp is added in it. What is the reason? "

"Kelp can really cure big neck disease?"

Just as soon as he asked, Fusu regretted it.

He almost forgot that Ji Heng's medical skills were equally astonishing, and he was even admired by the entire Imperial Physician's Office.

The incomplete prescription he left behind has tortured the doctors of the Imperial Physician's Office a lot in the past few months. A group of old imperial physicians in their 60s and [-]s gathered around to study all day long.

That tenacity is astonishing.

The First Emperor even gave an order specifically to let the group of old doctors take it easy.

Since Ji Heng dared to say that, he must be confident, otherwise how could he speak so easily?
At this time, Fusu also smiled to himself: "Since kelp can cure big neck disease, it will be easier to do. You only need to have someone grind the kelp into pieces, and then stir it into refined salt. Then ask someone to verify it." Fan, how can this 'Royal Salt' not be sold at a high price?"

"In this way, it can be used as capital for the country."

Ji Heng followed with a smile.

There is a cheerful atmosphere in the courtyard.

In fact, he also wanted to talk about the 'Great Unification'. Daqin's use of the 'Great Unification' was also rough, but after thinking about it in the end, he didn't choose to speak. Right now, Daqin has already made a lot of moves. A big move will inevitably arouse the emotions of all parties.

At that time, the gain outweighs the loss.

What's more, it's not the time yet.

It would be good to be able to solve the problem of the general merit system.

Why rush.

(End of this chapter)